The Weekly Nerdy Thread (This week: Poetry)

[Commi-Ninja]

A thread specifically designed to be full of nerds?  Awesome!

Personally, my favorite poet is Robert Frost...  I love Poe, too, though!

"The Raven" is classic, of course, but he's got so many good short stories as well.

As for Robert Frost's poems, my favorites are "Fire and Ice" and "The Road Not Taken".

[mangaluva]

"The Raven" is classic, of course, but he's got so many good short stories as well.

I adore "The Raven" too ♥ Clearly i'm an emo when it comes to poetry... XD

[pofa]

*glomps topic*

I love A. E. Housman. Ezra Pound, Thomas Hardy (talking of depressing ), Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Philip Larkin, T. S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Donne...and many others.

Poe is great, too. My favorites tend to be the early-mid 20th-century poets, though. The ideas in their poems are so profoundly sad that they make my bones ache, but I can't stop reading them. D: And there's so much there to analyze, too, if you're into that sort of thing (I am).

Some of my favorites :

"Terence, this is stupid stuff" by A. E. Housman
"The Convergence of the Twain" by Thomas Hardy
"Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Church Going" by Philip Larkin
"Channel Firing" by Thomas Hardy
"Aubade" by Philip Larkin
"Adam's Curse" by William Butler Yeats
"Ballad of the Goodly Fere" by Ezra Pound
"Sudden Light" by Dante Gabriel Rosetti
"Journey of the Magi" by T. S. Eliot
"White in the moon the long road lies" by A. E. Housman

[Sebolains]

Depressing though it is, i'm really taken by some of the imagery in Sylvia Plath's poetry. It's very emotionally powerful.

Ahh, Plath. How can someone write about depression and insanity in such an amazing way? I think that the fact that she actually was clinically insane for a large portion of her life gave her something that no one else has been able to grasp. She really is amazing, and I don't get how it works, but it really gets to you, you know. Something for those rainy, sad days, for sure

A thread specifically designed to be full of nerds?  Awesome!

I know, right?! Another great idea to come off of the FI thread

[Akonyl]

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

[Commi-Ninja]

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

!


Awesome.

[Akonyl]

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

!


Awesome.

hhhhhhhhigh five.

[Commi-Ninja]

*high-fives Akonyl*

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

[Detective Tommy]

*high-fives Akonyl*

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

I've heard that poem before!

[Commi-Ninja]

Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"

I'm not surprised you've heard it.

[mangaluva]

Depressing though it is, i'm really taken by some of the imagery in Sylvia Plath's poetry. It's very emotionally powerful.

Ahh, Plath. How can someone write about depression and insanity in such an amazing way? I think that the fact that she actually was clinically insane for a large portion of her life gave her something that no one else has been able to grasp. She really is amazing, and I don't get how it works, but it really gets to you, you know. Something for those rainy, sad days, for sure

Some of her imagery is so good it can get downright disturbing, especially in "Edge" with the distinct parallels it draws to her suicide, which was six days after she wrote the poem.